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the merger of american and us air, giving us only four major airlines and less competition. comcast buying nbc universal, also reducing competition. the very wealthy getting a trivial increase in taxes while the payroll tax of working people will go from 4.2% to 6.2%. colossal salaries escalating again, many subsidized by tax payers. the postal service ending service on saturday. what's the picture you get from that montage of headlines? >> well, for me it is captured by the european word "austerity." we're basically saying that even though the widening gap between rich and poor built us up, many of the factors that plunged us into a crisis, instead of dealing with them and fixing that problem, we're actually allowing the crisis to make the inequality worse. the latest research from the leading two economists, saez from the university of california in berkeley, and piketty in france confirms that even over the last five years of the crisis, through 2012, the inequality of wealth and income has gotten worse, as though we are determined not to deal with it. all of those headli
the merger of american and us air, giving us only four major airlines and less competition. comcast buying nbc universal, also reducing competition. the very wealthy getting a trivial increase in taxes while the payroll tax of working people will go from 4.2% to 6.2%. colossal salaries escalating again, many subsidized by tax payers. the postal service ending service on saturday. what's the picture you get from that montage of headlines? >> well, for me it is captured by the european word...
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>> well, i want to say i'm optimistic if it can be used in a way that connects us in ways that will make us more human, as that will bring the human community together. but let me just take politics. i was so optimistic and excited about the connections that people could form politically using the computer. and there has been some fantastic things, obviously. but very often, people feel as though they've politically participated if they go on a website and they check "like." they feel that that is belonging to a -- making a political statement. politics is actually, i think, going into your community, having a conversation, not to overuse the word, disagreeing with somebody, putting yourself into somebody else's head, often very hard, looking somebody in the eye, really doing the hard work of empathy, something that you don't learn by email. it's the last place to develop empathic skills. so the question of community and being part of a community is either something that computers can help or that computation can undermine, depending on how we use it. >> have you found that people feel e
>> well, i want to say i'm optimistic if it can be used in a way that connects us in ways that will make us more human, as that will bring the human community together. but let me just take politics. i was so optimistic and excited about the connections that people could form politically using the computer. and there has been some fantastic things, obviously. but very often, people feel as though they've politically participated if they go on a website and they check "like."...
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these kinds of words are used. but that's useless to people who want to learn how to run a business, because it's a fantasy. so, they are shunted someplace else. if you want to learn about marketing, or promotion, or advertising, or administration, or personnel, go over there. those people teach you how the economy actually works and how you'll have to make decisions if you're going to run a business. over there, you learn about how beautiful it all is when you think abstractly about its basic principles. >> the invisible hand. >> yeah. >> the market. >> all of that. so for me, i began to realize, "okay, i'm an economist. i'm in that one. but i want to understand how the real economy works." and then i discovered that i needed to reeducate myself. i had to go learn things that i was never assigned to read. >> after harvard? after stanford? and after yale? >> it actually happened while i was there. i was already -- there were a few people -- >> as heretics. >> yes, they do. >> a few. >> you know, but you know, capit
these kinds of words are used. but that's useless to people who want to learn how to run a business, because it's a fantasy. so, they are shunted someplace else. if you want to learn about marketing, or promotion, or advertising, or administration, or personnel, go over there. those people teach you how the economy actually works and how you'll have to make decisions if you're going to run a business. over there, you learn about how beautiful it all is when you think abstractly about its basic...
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more and more land is being used and used fairly destructively by fewer and fewer people. used destructively because the fewness of the people implies and requires a dependence on more and more mechanical power and more and more toxic chemicals. >> arthur young, a farmer whose land is down the road from st. catharine college, learned for himself what chemicals can do. >> i got to looking around at modern farming and i knew something was not right on my land. the water was running off quickly. it was not going in the soil. the land was becoming compacted. and i said, this is not going to work. and i just said enough is enough and that's really when i got into this thing of sustainable agriculture. see that little pile of dirt? that is a worm casting. it's very, very rich in nutrients. i'm on about my third year without fertilizer. not a lot of synthetic stuff goes on this soil. but i know it's getting better because i can see the production and my grasses are getting better every year. >> you also recommend taking animals out of their confinement and putting them back in. >
more and more land is being used and used fairly destructively by fewer and fewer people. used destructively because the fewness of the people implies and requires a dependence on more and more mechanical power and more and more toxic chemicals. >> arthur young, a farmer whose land is down the road from st. catharine college, learned for himself what chemicals can do. >> i got to looking around at modern farming and i knew something was not right on my land. the water was running...
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so all of us are -- >> toxic trespass? >> toxic trespass -- >> you've used that several times. what is it? >> well, it means that chemicals without our consent enter our body sometimes because we inhale them. you know, each of us breathes a pint of atmosphere with every breath. and so that is one way in which toxic air pollutants then enter us, into our bloodstream. so the other trunk of this tree of crisis is climate instability in which is created of course by the combustion of fossil fuels and their buildup in our atmosphere such that we're trapping heat. and that heat is being absorbed by the ocean, warming the ocean, but also acidifying the ocean in ways that are now precipitating mass species' extinctions. and the main actors in the story of climate instability are carbon dioxide and unburned methane. which is -- >> and fracking affects those? >> and fracking affects both of those, of course in -- first of all, natural gas is methane. and to blast it out of the bedrock and extract it and put it into pipelines and process it and get it to market so that we can make our tea
so all of us are -- >> toxic trespass? >> toxic trespass -- >> you've used that several times. what is it? >> well, it means that chemicals without our consent enter our body sometimes because we inhale them. you know, each of us breathes a pint of atmosphere with every breath. and so that is one way in which toxic air pollutants then enter us, into our bloodstream. so the other trunk of this tree of crisis is climate instability in which is created of course by the...
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allows us to be literate. what allows us to be civic literacy may be in some ways the high point of what it means to be an intellectual -- >> because? >> because it suggests that how we learn what we learn and what we do with the knowledge that we have is not just for ourselves. it's for the way in which we can expand and deepen the very processes of democracy in general and address those problems and anti-democratic forces that work against it. now, some people make a living as a result of being intellectuals. but there are people who are intellectuals who don't function in that capacity. they're truck drivers. they're workers. i grew up in a working class neighborhood. the smartest people i have ever met were in that neighborhood. we read books. we went to the library together. we drank on friday nights. we talked about gramsci. we drove to boston. >> gramsci being the italian philosopher. >> the italian philosopher. >> the pessimism of the -- >> of the intellect and optimism of the world. >> right. >> right
allows us to be literate. what allows us to be civic literacy may be in some ways the high point of what it means to be an intellectual -- >> because? >> because it suggests that how we learn what we learn and what we do with the knowledge that we have is not just for ourselves. it's for the way in which we can expand and deepen the very processes of democracy in general and address those problems and anti-democratic forces that work against it. now, some people make a living as a...
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it's supposed to work for all of us. we've got to figure out a way to just help the people who are in power to recognize their own sense of humanity and recognize that they are no different than barbie izquierdo, no different than rosie. that their kids are no different than rosie, that we're all a part of that same human family. ultimately that's what we need to tap into. >> on that note, thank you, dr. mariana chilton, for your work. and kristi jacobson, thank you for an extraordinary film. and thank you both for being here. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> that's it for this week. i'll see you here next time. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical iss
it's supposed to work for all of us. we've got to figure out a way to just help the people who are in power to recognize their own sense of humanity and recognize that they are no different than barbie izquierdo, no different than rosie. that their kids are no different than rosie, that we're all a part of that same human family. ultimately that's what we need to tap into. >> on that note, thank you, dr. mariana chilton, for your work. and kristi jacobson, thank you for an extraordinary...
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he's using one of those tricks. he's not here to defend himself, so let me be very careful to give, you know, just as much justice as possible to what he's arguing. he, in calculating income gains for the median worker, uses the assumed increase in the value of the home up until 2007. and because home values were rising and many families own their own home in middle-class families, even lower middle-class families, he assumes that they got the benefits of those income gains. well, that's just silly. most people could not sell. if they tried to sell, they'd have to buy another house that was just as expensive. and they don't -- their quality of life, their standard of living is not really affected. and more over, it was a bubble. and back in 2007, 2008 those gains disappeared. so that's a statistical trick. it has nothing to do with how real people live. >> speaking of real people, we began this series last year with three broadcasts on inequality. and in the first one we introduced our audience to a woman living in
he's using one of those tricks. he's not here to defend himself, so let me be very careful to give, you know, just as much justice as possible to what he's arguing. he, in calculating income gains for the median worker, uses the assumed increase in the value of the home up until 2007. and because home values were rising and many families own their own home in middle-class families, even lower middle-class families, he assumes that they got the benefits of those income gains. well, that's just...
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movement is a word we use often, but don't reflect on what it means. it was the watch word of politics. people were moved and literally moved history. but in a very, very short time. now, the watch word of politics is spin. you know, nothing's going anywhere and nobody's moving. >> not since martin luther king has inequality been on the table the way it was at the occupy briefly appeared on the scene. and i wondered watching occupy from here if a martin luther king had risen to embody that movement, would they have carried us further toward the changes that king and others wanted? >> it may would have. i'm not sure. but, you know, getting rid of poverty, redistribution of wealth is not as easy as getting the right to vote. the right to vote doesn't cost anything. but redistribution of wealth takes across class lines. that costs a lot. and people will fight you in order to prevent that from happening. and i don't know what it would take in order to make that happen. >> it's also not a simple formula. dr. king never said we were going to give up freedom
movement is a word we use often, but don't reflect on what it means. it was the watch word of politics. people were moved and literally moved history. but in a very, very short time. now, the watch word of politics is spin. you know, nothing's going anywhere and nobody's moving. >> not since martin luther king has inequality been on the table the way it was at the occupy briefly appeared on the scene. and i wondered watching occupy from here if a martin luther king had risen to embody...
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consistent use has been a problem. so that's when they fall under an unintended pregnancy situation. and they're often scrambling to get abortion care. often borrowing money from friends or trying other avenues. so where some of them are able and successful to get the abortions, there's also so many unintended pregnancies that go term because of these policies. >> well, it's also a strategy. until recently, especially, the only supreme court successes in eliminating abortions for many years had been when they combined abortion with a vulnerable, less politically-powered group. so abortion in young women or abortion in women of color and low-income women, and they would get restrictions passed there. that clearly isn't enough. and they're expanding it and expanding it. which is why, suddenly, we recognize the war on women, because it's affecting white women too. but there has always been this war on women -- >> you think there is a war on women? >> i think there has always been, whether you look at how native american w
consistent use has been a problem. so that's when they fall under an unintended pregnancy situation. and they're often scrambling to get abortion care. often borrowing money from friends or trying other avenues. so where some of them are able and successful to get the abortions, there's also so many unintended pregnancies that go term because of these policies. >> well, it's also a strategy. until recently, especially, the only supreme court successes in eliminating abortions for many...
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and so, some of us are worried. now, i have to say, i mean, i'm reading my own stage directions here. people like me are, in part, going after him, warning about the wimping out thing in order to turn that into a self-denying prophesy. that the idea is to make a situation where the president will be aware what people will say about him if he does give in here so it doesn't happen. >> more than many economists i read, you keep politics at center stage in writing about the economy. those are two different narratives in one sense. and yet, you intertwine them as you keep writing and analyzing our situation today. why is that? >> i think we've reached a moment in our history where the extreme nature of our politics and the extreme nature of the economic situation has converged. you know, here we are, on one side we have a once-in-three-generations economic crisis. right, this is -- starting in 2008, we've been experiencing the crisis that has haunted the nightmares of macro economists since the 1930s. and here it is aga
and so, some of us are worried. now, i have to say, i mean, i'm reading my own stage directions here. people like me are, in part, going after him, warning about the wimping out thing in order to turn that into a self-denying prophesy. that the idea is to make a situation where the president will be aware what people will say about him if he does give in here so it doesn't happen. >> more than many economists i read, you keep politics at center stage in writing about the economy. those...
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us strive to perfection." there are many modern politicians, including mario cuomo, who we both know, who says let's not denigrate lincoln publicly. let's keep him on a pedestal, because it makes others aspire to join him on the pedestal. it brings out the best in modern leaders. and i think there's something to be said for that, as well. >> announcer: we now continue with moyers and company. >> what about the scene where you, where the amendment is in doubt, lincoln himself seems skeptical that they're going to make it, and seward has been pushing him to be careful, not to let it be known that he's around town trying to rouse up votes. and they're in the theater and mary lincoln turns -- well, let's look at it. >> you think i'm ignorant of what you're up to because you haven't discussed this scheme with me as you ought to have done. when have i ever been so easily bamboozled? i believe you when you insist that amending the constitution and abolishing slavery will end this war and since you are sending my son
us strive to perfection." there are many modern politicians, including mario cuomo, who we both know, who says let's not denigrate lincoln publicly. let's keep him on a pedestal, because it makes others aspire to join him on the pedestal. it brings out the best in modern leaders. and i think there's something to be said for that, as well. >> announcer: we now continue with moyers and company. >> what about the scene where you, where the amendment is in doubt, lincoln himself...
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i like the fact that i know how to use it. it's so cool, i just wish i could use it to get a job. i'm healthy, i'm employable, i'm willing. i've been out of prison for just about a year and i've been looking for a job ever since i've been out. i was a nurse before and i had never had a resume and i just walked in and they would hire me right on the spot. now i have all these resume, these certificates and all this stuff, but it doesn't matter because my background is in the way. >> we don't get a lot of money here. we barely make it from month to month keeping the doors open, keeping food in the houses, keeping the lights on, keeping staff paid. that invoice should've been paid, right? and then do -- how much am i short from payroll? that's still short. okay. all right. bye. it was 1999. i was a few months sober and it angered me that i would be treated so cruel and caged and chained for a drug charge. and i knew thousands of women just like me who had been negatively impacted by the war on drugs, who were incarcerated on a turnstile going in and out of prison, not able to get hel
i like the fact that i know how to use it. it's so cool, i just wish i could use it to get a job. i'm healthy, i'm employable, i'm willing. i've been out of prison for just about a year and i've been looking for a job ever since i've been out. i was a nurse before and i had never had a resume and i just walked in and they would hire me right on the spot. now i have all these resume, these certificates and all this stuff, but it doesn't matter because my background is in the way. >> we...
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it's supposed to work for all of us. we've got to figure out a way to just help the people who are in power to recognize their own sense of humanity and recognize that they are no different than barbie izquierdo, no different than rosie, that their kids are no different than rosie, that we're all a part of that same human family. ultimately that's what we need to tap into. >> bill moyers: on that note thank you, dr. mariana chilton, for your work, and kristi jacobson, thank you for an extraordinary film. and thank you both for being here. >> mariana chilton: thank you so much. >> kristi jacobson: thank you. >> bill moyers: food stamps were at the core of the monster farm bill that went down to defeat in the house of representatives last week. that bill would have cut food stamps by some $20 billion over 10 years, but that was too little for house republicans and too much for house democrats, although senate democrats had already agreed to cuts of more than $4 billion. here to talk about food stamps and the farm bill is a
it's supposed to work for all of us. we've got to figure out a way to just help the people who are in power to recognize their own sense of humanity and recognize that they are no different than barbie izquierdo, no different than rosie, that their kids are no different than rosie, that we're all a part of that same human family. ultimately that's what we need to tap into. >> bill moyers: on that note thank you, dr. mariana chilton, for your work, and kristi jacobson, thank you for an...
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people agree with us. we can actually get this done. >> have some politicians treated you with respect? >> all politicians in this system right now are restricted by the system. so that -- >> how so? >> so, they're able to say the good things. you know, they can say the right things, the things that you want to hear. but no politician has stood up and really held a hard line all the way to the end on any issue, on any of the important issues that we face. and i think that there's this thinking by elected officials that, well, if i compromise a little bit on this, at least i can stay in office and try again to do something good. and so, they just keep compromising. and president obama campaigned on renegotiating nafta in a way that was more favorable, but instead is pushing through a more toxic trade agreement. and he's doing worse things with the drones and murdering civilians than bush did. and it's confusing progressives because all of a sudden you have a democratic president willing to even cut our basi
people agree with us. we can actually get this done. >> have some politicians treated you with respect? >> all politicians in this system right now are restricted by the system. so that -- >> how so? >> so, they're able to say the good things. you know, they can say the right things, the things that you want to hear. but no politician has stood up and really held a hard line all the way to the end on any issue, on any of the important issues that we face. and i think...
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lake chad used to be one of the largest inland seas in the world. and the climate science warned us decades ago that, as a result of a warming planet, lake chad was under risk. as the current secretary-general of the united nations ban ki-moon puts it, lake chad has now shrunk to a size of a pond, right? so water scarcity, land scarcity and food scarcity as a result of an absence of water and land was the toxic mix that created conditions for identity manipulation by opportunistic politicians that saw the so for some people it's going to be too late. however, we are still in a small window of opportunity, and that's where i disagree with people that say give it up, it's all over. there is a small window of opportunity in terms of time. i would say no more than five to ten years, and that actually is being optimistic, that if we can take the courageous, bold steps that we need to take to shift our planet in an energy revolution that takes us to bringing down carbon pollution but doing it in a way that also generates millions of new jobs in an inclusi
lake chad used to be one of the largest inland seas in the world. and the climate science warned us decades ago that, as a result of a warming planet, lake chad was under risk. as the current secretary-general of the united nations ban ki-moon puts it, lake chad has now shrunk to a size of a pond, right? so water scarcity, land scarcity and food scarcity as a result of an absence of water and land was the toxic mix that created conditions for identity manipulation by opportunistic politicians...
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but it uses the language of liberty and rights that we're used to thinking of in other contexts. and if you think of all of the rights in the bill of rights, haven't they been extended and expanded over the years? why not second amendment rights as well? and that's the level at which it gets pernicious. but their appeal, their ability to control the debate, i think, comes because their position coincides with the interest of the reaganite ideologue who doesn't want to regulate anything and the consumer who simply doesn't want to be bothered. >> and don't both of those strands, both of those tendencies have their roots deep in our culture, going all the way back to the beginning? >> well, yes, i mean, the thing that's different, that's exceptional about american gun culture, so called, is the license that we grant for the private use of deadly force. other countries have similar levels of guns in the home. >> now, switzerland is a militia state -- >> switzerland. >> -- and the guns are kept at home. >> but the guns kept at home in those countries are not used to murder individuals
but it uses the language of liberty and rights that we're used to thinking of in other contexts. and if you think of all of the rights in the bill of rights, haven't they been extended and expanded over the years? why not second amendment rights as well? and that's the level at which it gets pernicious. but their appeal, their ability to control the debate, i think, comes because their position coincides with the interest of the reaganite ideologue who doesn't want to regulate anything and the...
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to use and to use as quickly and rapidly as possible to give us all the things that we like? or do we have deeper responsibilities to the life of this planet? because in fact species, ecosystems are not just inert warehouses of resources. they have evolved along with human beings. our own evolution itself is inseparable from the climate system, the biophysical world and the other species that we ride on this rock with. what is our responsibility to them? and i think one of the most interesting things that comes out of science that challenges some of our long held cultural beliefs that somehow human beings are fundamentally different than the natural world is the recognition that at root, when you look at the dna, we are kin, okay? you and i share a lot of genetic material with a tree, other animals, with fish, and so on. we are literally relatives, okay. that is an idea that we haven't even really begun to process as a complete culture. what does that really mean when you understand that we are inseparable in that way? we are descendants of the same lines of other animals and
to use and to use as quickly and rapidly as possible to give us all the things that we like? or do we have deeper responsibilities to the life of this planet? because in fact species, ecosystems are not just inert warehouses of resources. they have evolved along with human beings. our own evolution itself is inseparable from the climate system, the biophysical world and the other species that we ride on this rock with. what is our responsibility to them? and i think one of the most interesting...